Rio-state cities Niterói and Duque de Caxias, as well as the city of Rio de Janeiro, will host the 4th Arab Women’s Film Festival from August 17 to 25. Themes include Muslim populations and life in Palestine.
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The 18th Arab World Film Festival opened this Thursday (31) at Cinesesc in São Paulo. The first screening was ‘Mother Valley,’ in which women in a Lebanese village endure the reality of the local patriarchy, the 1958 conflict, and the desire for freedom.
Thirty-four films directed by Arab women will be screened at CCBB Rio de Janeiro from March 22 to April 10. The festival will then move on to Brasília and São Paulo.
Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon and Qatar are the countries involved in the titles. Other three films are co-productions with Qatar, an Arab country that has heavily invested in international productions. The festival runs until November 2.
Assistant manager of CineSesc, Yunes was one of the founders of the Arab World Film Festival. She is a Lebanese Brazilian and talks about what it was like growing up in that culture.
Brazil’s Arab World Film Festival will hold online discussions with the participation of Syrian director Ameer Fakhr al Din and Jordanian Darin J. Sallam, director of ‘Farha.’
After two years solely in an online format, film screenings are also taking place in person again in the capital of São Paulo. Festival organizers and supporters spoke at the opening this Wednesday (31).
The screenings will occur at CineSesc, in São Paulo, on the festival’s return to the in-person format, from August 31 to September 7. Three films will be available on the Sesc Digital platform.
Geraldo Adriano Godoy de Campos spreads the Arab culture across Brazil. In his most recent challenge, he’s helping establish an international center for Arab and Islamic studies in Sergipe.
Brazilian ambassador Alessandro Candeas and other representatives of Latin American countries met with Palestinian minister of Culture and discussed holding cinema and literature activities in 2022.
Starting this Friday (27), the Arab World Film Festival at Home will hold discussions with directors of some of the films on its program.
One of the works is directed by Brazil’s Otavio Cury. The films will be screened on the Festival and SESC’s digital platforms. This year’s edition will rn from August 20 to September 16.
The company created a USD 500,000 fund in partnership with an art and culture institution to support film and television crews whose activities were hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In virtual event, representatives of Icarabe, ABCC and SESC-SP talked about the films of the festival that is taking place online this year, the pandemic and Lebanon’s tragedy.
